Power Quotes
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Never underestimate the power of a simple tool.
Craig Bruce
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Comedy often comes at the expense of others, and to do that smartly, you don't want to make fun of vulnerable people. You want to make fun of people in power, and so you need to really understand the dynamics of power.
Elizabeth Banks
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Imagine the power of surfacing what's happening in the world through images, and potentially other types of media in the future, to each and every person who holds a mobile phone.
Kevin Systrom
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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
Jean Rostand
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The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.
Angelina Grimke
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The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.
John Abizaid
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Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is the wriggle.
E. M. Forster
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Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world.
Clifford Stoll
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Giving consumers the power to keep their phone numbers when they switch carriers has been great for consumers and businesses alike.
Ajit Pai
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We have barely tapped the power that is ours. We are more than we know.
Charlene Spretnak
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Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?
George Fox
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Did we not aid the grisly Taliban to achieve and hold power? Yes indeed 'we' did. Well, does that not double or triple our responsibility to remove them from power?
Christopher Hitchens
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Beauty is the attractive power of perfection.
Ananda Coomaraswamy
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Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them.
Margaret Heffernan
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We have a tendency to be in our heads’ … Dancing is about letting go of the mind [and] the ego and finding the power of the body.
Carrie Ann Inaba
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There's power in naming yourself, in proclaiming to the world that this is who you are. Wielding this power is often a difficult step for many transgender people because it's also a very visible one.
Janet Mock
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Techno-optimism is a belief in the power of technology to extend our sphere of possibilities and, ultimately, a belief that technology helps us solve and transcend problems, limitations and obstacles.
Jason Silva
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Man's power is first of all the result of hardening his heart against God: man affirms that he is strong, conquers the world, and builds cities.
Jacques Ellul
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The greatest power God gave us is the power to choose. We have the opportunity to choose whether we're going to act or procrastinate, believe or doubt, pray or curse, help or heal. We also choose whether we're going to be happy or whether we're going to be sad.
Lou Holtz
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I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn empower the people.
Corazon Aquino
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People need to realise that their governments are sitting on finite resources that will run out one day. Subsidising power and water is not an ideal solution and does not help reduce consumption. We need to educate people, from a young age, about the importance of conserving energy in their daily lives.
Joe Kaeser
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Profitability, growth, and safeguards against existential risks are crucial to strengthening a company's long-term prospects. But if these three factors constitute a company's 'hard power,' firms also need 'soft power': public trust and acceptance, won by fulfilling a company's social responsibility.
Klaus Schwab
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There is a Power in the universe greater than you are, and you can use it.
Ernest Holmes
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I bet on my team to win every night because I love my team; I believe in my team. I did everything in my power every night to win that game.
Pete Rose